A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1558-1566
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Conducting, vbl. n. [e.m.E. (1531).] Leading, guidance. —1558-66 Knox I. 230.
The foresaid four personis, having the help and conducting of a boy of the house [etc.] 1558-66 Ib. II. 57.
The army … , the conducting quhairof was committit to the Lord Gray